HH onng KG n gam ilkshake murderer’ loses final bid for appeal
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Ao e‘rim- can housewife Nancy Kissel, dubbed the “milkshake murderer,” yesterday lost her final bid to appeal against her conviction in Hong Kong for the 200 murder of her banker husband.
The - year- old e patriate, serving a life sentence since 2005, was found guilty of drugging her husband a senior e ecutive at US bank errill ynch with a sedative-laced strawberry drink before clubbing him to death with a lead ornament in their lu ury home.
She has maintained she acted in self-defense against an abusive spouse.
“ e dismiss this application,” presiding udge obert ibeiro said at the Court of inal Appeal as a frail-looking Kissel sat uietly in the dock behind bars.
She was then taken out of the court room on a stretcher.
Her defense team had told the court that Kissel suffered from depression and “had only killed the deceased in a fren ied attack provoked by threats and the deceased’s physical assault on her.”
Kissel’s trial gripped the former ritish colony, shining a spotlight on Hong Kong’s elite e patriate community, and featuring sensational allegations of a heady mi of adultery, violence, spying, greed and enormous wealth.
The ichigan- born motherofthree was first convicted of murder and handed a life sentence in 2005, but the Court of inal Appeal overturned the conviction in ebruary 2010, citing legal errors, and ordered a fresh hearing.
She was convicted again in 2011.
An appeal against the second conviction was re ected in ecember last year, and her bid to overthrow that ruling went to the city’s highest court after an application was rebuffed in a lower court in anuary.
Kissel had admitted to killing her husband and offered to plead guilty to manslaughter.
After killing her husband in their Tai Tam home, prosecutors accused Kissel of rolling up his body in a carpet and covering his head with plastic, leaving it in the bedroom for days before hiring workmen to carry it to a storeroom.